Goals and Overview

I felt that enemies in Star Wars should exhibit a few behavioral traits and countermeasures to match the experience of fighting as a Jedi. First, I believed that standard enemies should generally be significantly weaker compared to the player. Jedi are traditionally portrayed as being exceptionally superior to any non-Force-wielding opponents, so it would feel odd to make them fight enemies in small groups and have it be challenging. Instead, having the player battle through hordes of enemies that are individually easily defeated seemed to make more sense. This also aligned with another behavior I wanted to implement: "full battle simulation." A significant part of Star Wars is the war itself, and having massive groups of enemies fighting each other, which the player must navigate through or fight their way through with allies, felt very true to the identity of Star Wars.

One major issue with this approach, however, is that the player can easily become surrounded and unable to fight back. To address this, I used a Tokening/Budgeting system. This system ensures that only a select number of enemies can attack the player at any given time. Under this system, an enemy must take a "token" from the player before it can attack. Once it finishes its attack, it returns the "token." The player has a limited number of "tokens" to give, which controls how many enemies can attack at once. As a result, the player can face as many enemies as needed without it becoming impossibly difficult. To adjust the difficulty, you can decrease how many tokens an enemy move requires, thus increasing the challenge either by making moves harder or more frequent.